Margaret’s parents visited us in Chicago

I finally got to meet Margaret’s mother and father, Pete, and Mary Klein.  They were very nice middle-aged heavy-set people from South Dakota, both in their late fifties.  They drove down.  We let them have our bed room and we slept on the coach in the living room.  I think Margaret took them to the Museum of Science and Industry.  It was cold in the winter of 1972.  They liked looking out the window at Lake Michigan.  They were worried about Margaret, but she was reassuring them that everything was okay.  We agreed to go home to South Dakota in the spring or summer.  Margaret’s mother liked to cook.  Margaret and her got along very well.  Pete Klein had spent most of his life in Dell Rapids area of South Dakota.  He loved farming and especially milking cows.  They did not live in town but on a farm outside of Dell Rapids.  I never did get to understand how they felt about their daughter, who had been a nun, marrying a former priest.  They were good Catholic parishioners of St. Mary’s parish in Dell Rapids.  They only stayed a couple of days.  However, I think that they had a hard time getting home, since the winter weather turned bad.  They wanted us to come home to South Dakota in the spring, which we promised to do.  Did you ever have your in-laws come to visit you?